My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It

No passing it around at Christmas saying:

Look how crazy she was.

Thomas’s privacy mattered too.

His birth did not belong to spectators.

I learned that partly from what the hospital did right after Eleanor’s mistake.

Sharon focused first on the baby.

Clean him.

Check his skin.